Petr, I don't think this list permits long attachments, so I am sending you separately a paper, "The U.S. and 'Data-Based' Communications Policy: Bridging the Metaphor Divide," delivered at the ITS'10 conference in Tokyo. It is generally directed to your topic and has some background which you may find relevant. I come to the question from the perspective of a "policy" person, asking how our metaphors shape our policies. Happy to share with anyone else who would like a copy. Good luck! Richard Prof. Richard D. Taylor College of Communications Penn State University -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Petr Lupac Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 7:37 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] digital society instead of info soc? Hello, I am teaching Information Policy course and writing dissertation thesis on the sociotechnical construction of information society - and I got into interesting question: what stands behind EU information policy moving from information society concept in iEurope initiatives (2000-2010) to digital society concept in Digital Agenda for Europe (2010-2020)? Does anyone here have a clue? Is that because original information-society-based iEurope project went pretty unsuccesfull compared to its original goals so they need a new term? Or can it be that the European Comittee wants to move away from using the terms loaded by academic disputes? Or is it just using the new, theoretically disembedded term so they can defend themselves by broad scope of interpretation possibilities? Or is there a new theoretical tradition working with the term "digital society" which Eu is refering to implicitly and I haven't noticed yet? Any answer helsping me answer would be pretty welcome :) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Petr Lupac M.A. Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague Celetná 20, Prague 1, 116 42, the Czech Republic e-mail> petr.lupac--at--gmail.com Office hours Mo 12:30-14:00, Celetná 20, room nr. 114, or by appointment. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/